season4


  • Explainer: Mental Health Issues Faced by LTQ Women of Science

    Everyone in India faces social stigma when it comes to mental health issues. However, women face a lot more of it due to patriarchal norms, social conditioning, and misogyny built into in the system. Lesbian, trans, and queer women specifically may have to deal with oppression arising from genderism, heteronormativity, and transphobia. Let’s look at […]

    October 5th 2019

  • Being a Lesbian Trans Woman of Science in India

    “Post and during the transition, I have definitely faced much discrimination and bigotry in the academic world,” says A. Mani, a mathematician

    October 3rd 2019

  • STEMming the tide of mental health crises

    Two neuroscientists and a sociologist reflect on mental health experiences of people in science. What is it about the environment in STEM labs that might increase the risk for anxiety and depression?

    October 2nd 2019

  • Physicists meet to talk gender equity (and some physics)

    At the first of its kind scientific conference, Indian physicists start to agree that something must be done about the gender gap

    October 1st 2019

  • Two Years in IISc, and Learning to Doubt Everyone & Everything

    From my two years of being in academia, I’ve come to understand that this insecurity has a name, ‘imposter syndrome’, and it does not stop or get any better along the journey.

    September 28th 2019

  • An Agroforestry Scientist’s Notes on Kodagu and Climate Change

    At the backdrop of the 2019 Kodagu floods, Switzerland-based agroforestry researcher Maike Nesper, talks about working with small coffee farmers to find sustainable ways of growing coffee.

    September 18th 2019

  • Infographic: Lightening India’s IBD Burden

    Sharing snippets of a special project by TLoS to highlight the work by public health researchers at THSTI, Faridabad.

    September 10th 2019

  • The case for open science

    A tour through an open science laboratory in Switzerland where scientists are realising the hacker culture

    August 28th 2019

  • Behind the scenes with Boby

    Lab technicians might be appreciated in the scientific community but rarely do we stop and listen to their stories. Cyrus Khan speaks to KV Boby, a technician at TIFR Bombay.

    August 20th 2019

  • Infographic: Clinical trials made easy

    Sharing snippets of a special project by TLoS to highlight the work by public health researchers at THSTI, Faridabad.

    August 13th 2019